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Psychological Sci-Fi

Psychological sci-fi films are dramas or thrillers occuring in a science fiction setting. Often the focus is on the character's inner struggle dealing with the political or technological forces at large. This ranges from touching alien communication (Contact, Close Encounters of the Third Kind) to dark mind games (A Clockwork Orange, Second). The most common form of this hybrid genre is the future dystopia film (1984, A Handmaid's Tale, Fahrenheit 451, ect.), in which a totalitarian state attempts to contol the individual's will.

Major Works
Rating
Year
 Title
 
 Director
    9 Stars 1962 La jetée   Chris Marker
  9 Stars 1972 Solaris   Andrei Tarkovsky
  9 Stars 1977 Close Encounters of the Third Kind   Steven Spielberg
  9 Stars 1971 A Clockwork Orange   Stanley Kubrick
  9 Stars 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey   Stanley Kubrick
  8 Stars 1979 Stalker   Andrei Tarkovsky
  7 Stars 1966 Seconds   John Frankenheimer
  7 Stars 1965 It Happened Here   Andrew Mollo
  7 Stars 1936 Things to Come   William Cameron Menzies
  7 Stars 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four   Michael Radford
  6 Stars 1997 Gattaca   Andrew Niccol
  6 Stars 1997 Contact   Robert Zemeckis
  6 Stars 1966 Fahrenheit 451   François Truffaut
    5 Stars 1980 La Mort En Direct   Bertrand Tavernier
  4 Stars 1990 The Handmaid's Tale   Volker Schlöndorff
 
 
 
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